Transnational Horror Cinema : Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
1st ed. 2016
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ISBN-10
1137584165
ISBN-13
9781137584168
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
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Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 6th, 2017
Print length
246 Pages
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Film: styles & genresFilm: styles and genresCultural studiesCultural studies
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This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges.
This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin''s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies'' potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.
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